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Testing

Selenium

Origin

Selenium originated in 2004 at ThoughtWorks and is the historical standard for browser automation — today implemented via the W3C WebDriver standard.

Benefits

  • Very broad language and browser support
  • Established standard with a large community
  • Foundation for many testing frameworks

Drawbacks

  • Less comfortable than modern alternatives
  • Flakiness without clean wait strategies

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